Gemini GIF vs GifCraft

Gemini GIF is a Python tool that turns text prompts into animated GIFs using Google’s Gemini API. It uses Gemini 2.0 Flash, with `models/gemini-2.0-flash-exp` listed as the default model. You can set the animation’s subject and style, adjust its prompt template, and choose a frame rate. Automatic retries help it generate multiple frames. Its command-line interface shows progress bars, supports verbose logging, and can disable automatic GIF previews. Save output to a chosen file, or use the default `animation_.gif`. A programmatic Python API is also available for other projects. Gemini GIF requires Python 3.10 or later and a Gemini API key, which can be supplied through a `.env` file, an environment variable, or a command-line argument. GIF generation uses imageio. The tool is free and open source under the MIT License, and supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.

GifCraft is a browser-based tool for creating and editing looping GIFs from videos, image sequences or AI-generated images. It can trim, caption, filter, resize, crop, rotate, change playback speed, adjust looping and compress media. Supported inputs include MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V, GIF, PNG, JPG, WebP and AVIF; exports include GIF, H.264 MP4, animated WebP and PNG frames. GIF exports can contain up to 240 frames, use 2–256 colours and include optional dithering. Presets cover Discord emoji at 256 KB, Slack emoji at 128 KB, X at 15 MB and Instagram MP4; MP4 exports are also described for TikTok and WhatsApp. GifCraft says files are edited and encoded in the browser, and uploaded files are not sent to its servers. AI prompts are sent to the image model, and the generator allows a few images per hour. The free service works on web, Android and iOS, needs no account, adds no watermark and has no export limit. Very long 4K clips may be slow on older phones.